Fire safety: committed to keeping you safe

January hot topic: communal areas

 

Keeping communal areas clear and safe is essential. Items left in corridors, stairwells, and shared spaces can:

 

• Block escape routes
• Increase fire risk
• Slow down emergency services
• Endanger lives

 

You should also help to keep escape routes clear and safe by:

 

• Not obstructing communal areas.
• Not propping open fire doors in shared areas – they are designed to slow the spread of fire and smoke.
• Not cluttering stairs, corridors or landings with personal belongings or rubbish.
• Not storing prams, bicycles, mobility scooters or similar items in communal spaces.
• Reporting anything that shouldn’t be in communal areas to Saxon Weald.
• Putting all rubbish in the bins provided.

 

Please remember: if it’s not meant to be there, don’t leave it there.

 

If there is a fire in your block, call 999 immediately.

Keep an eye out over the coming months for more information on fire safety, including our Spring edition of Spotlight in March.